qTranslate(-X) Separate Comments
Automatically separate the user comments by the language they viewed the article in.
The facts
- Rating
- 5★ from 5
- Active installs
- 50+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 22 Jun 2017
- Added
- Jun 2012
- Requires WP
- 3.3.2
- Tested up to
- WP 4.8.30
- Downloads
- 7,330
Our analysis
AI-assistedqTranslate(-X) Separate Comments is a WordPress plugin that separates user comments based on the language of the article viewed. This functionality helps to avoid duplicate content and improves user experience by ensuring comments are displayed in the same language as the article. Users can manually set the language for each comment and also perform bulk editing of comment languages.
The plugin uses comment-meta to store language information, which means that deactivating the plugin will not affect existing comments. It is designed to work with themes that use the comments_template() function and addresses a specific issue with qTranslate regarding language redirection after posting comments.
Best for: This plugin suits multilingual sites that want to manage comments based on the user's language preference.
What it does well
- ✓Separates comments by the language of the viewed article
- ✓Avoids duplicate content and enhances user experience
- ✓Allows manual and bulk editing of comment languages
- ✓Uses comment-meta for language storage, ensuring compatibility when deactivated
- ✓Fixes a language redirection issue in qTranslate
Where it falls short
- •Last updated in June 2017, which may raise compatibility concerns
- •Limited active installs suggest it may not be widely used
Verdict
qTranslate(-X) Separate Comments offers useful functionality for multilingual comment management but may require caution due to its age and limited user base.
From the developer
Nikola Nikolov's own description of qTranslate(-X) Separate Comments, lightly tidied.
This plugin separates the user comments by the language they viewed the article in – this way you avoid duplicate content(which is frowned-upon from search engines) and comments in other languages than the one the current visitor is using(which is generally bad user experience).
You can manually change the language of each comment(and you will have to set it in the begining).
Bulk-editing of the comments language is also available.
The plugin is using comment-meta to specify the language for each comment, so nothing will break if the plugin is deactivated.
It also should work out-of-the-box for all themes that use the comments_template() function to render their comments.
The plugin also fixes an issue of qTranslate. The issue consists in the fact that whenever a user posts a comment(while viewing a post in a language different than the default one), he is redirected back to the post but in the default language and not the language he was reading the post before posting the comment.